SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president

Re:SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attac... by majkinetor on Monday February 15, 2021 @06:40AM (#26141780)

It may be helpful if you have more then 1 horse.

And you are wrong in labeling it "prevention". It is a feedback mechanism. Fast feedback is essential in almost ANY scenario. Most of the things can be fixed if detected early on.

The first thing is knowing. If you don't know something, you can't act on it. To take your battleship analogy, if I remove all torpedo sensors from the ship, how long will it last given it is compartmentized and whatnot.

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Re:SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attac... by WalterBright on Monday February 15, 2021 @06:46AM (#26141826)

> Most

That's still focusing on making components that will not fail, rather than a system that can tolerate failure.

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Re:SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attac... by mindcrime on Monday February 15, 2021 @09:03AM (#26142837)

FWIW, I agree with the point you're making, vis-a-vis system resiliency. Ideally the system should be able to tolerate having a data center burn down. My comments above about the value of sprinklers are really addressing a separate issue, which is the immediate life hazard risk to the people working in the data center in the event of a fire. With my "firefighter hat" on so to speak, I don't really much care about the servers and the data in the short-term if there' a fire - I just care that everybody goes home safely.

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Re:SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attac... by majkinetor on Monday February 15, 2021 @06:58AM (#26141906)

Why do we have pain receptors then ? Nature sux as designer ?

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Re:SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attac... by jjk166 on Monday February 15, 2021 @11:09AM (#26144005)

For the same reason you don't have a backup heart

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Re:SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attac... by majkinetor on Monday February 15, 2021 @12:03PM (#26144545)

You actually do have organ backups.

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Re:SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attac... by jjk166 on Monday February 15, 2021 @02:10PM (#26146001)

If you have a second heart, please report to area 51 immediately

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Re:SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attac... by majkinetor on Monday February 15, 2021 @06:11PM (#26148889)

That would be Krogan, not me. There are animals with multiple hearts. People can be made to have 2 hearts too, but let me not go into that.

But we have bunch of non-heart redundancy.

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Re:SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attac... by jjk166 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:44PM (#26169911)

Yeah, if you ignore the various single points of failure in our circulatory, digestive and nervous systems there are plenty of redundancies.

There is no intelligence behind our design. Your body takes its current form because no mutation which would change it has yet led to a statistically greater chance of you passing on your genes. That nature designed you to have pain receptors is no more an argument for their utility than it is for the peacock's feathers.

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